10.4.15

Aruba : Natural Rock Bridge

Aruba's East side is the dark side of the island. In contrast with the white sand and calm caribbean waters of the West, the landscape is rugged and full of amazing limestone rock formations, like Natural Rock Bridges. Today, we can only visit the so-called Baby Bridge (as the larger one collapsed in 2005) and then take a walk around the rocky shore, until the abandoned Gold Mill, which processed gold during the island's gold rush in the 19th century.

An industry that eventually produced 3 million pounds of gold, roughly 500 years after Pirates traveled the Caribbean in search of gold. The legend has it, that one of these islands was named "Oro Ruba" that stands for "red gold" which is the root for today's name, "Aruba".